New MOA Terror Training Video Exposed
Christian Action Network, the same organization that produced the documentary film “Homegrown Jihad,” has released a new video.

According to the WorldNetDaily story below, the video is a “training video” filmed at the Muslims of America headquarters in Hancock, NY, and provided by an “unnamed law enforcement source.”

You may have heard the name of this compound: Islamberg.
We strongly recommend you take a few minutes to view this video.

'Chilling' new video: How to slit throats
18/12/2009

Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound.
A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.

The video was distributed by the makers of the movie "Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.," which documents how a jihadist group has developed dozens of training camps across the nation.

WND reported at the time how Jamaat ul-Fuqra has built 35 compounds – mostly in the northeastern corridor of the U.S.

Now the organization has posted on YouTube a "chilling" training video provided to CAN by an unnamed law enforcement source about the Muslims of America headquarters in Hancock, New York.

Muslims of America reportedly is the name Jamaat ul-Fuqra, believed to have been involved in the beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl, uses in the U.S.

The video includes segments of training exercises in which one person appears to practice a maneuver that would slit the throat of a victim. There are episodes of what appears to be automatic weapons fire at a target and incidents in which a handgun is held point-blank at a "victim's" head:

The video shows women marching in military formation, scaling walls, engaging in hand-to-hand combat and also reveals a Muslim confirming that the organization's own census revealed that Muslims are a majority in the United States and they are claiming it as their own.

Jihad training video showing how to slit a throat.
The speaker states, "We are 100 percent sure that Muslims are the majority in America."

He continues, "Our Islamic political party has based its manifesto on this fact. We want to declare once and for all that America is our country."

According to CAN, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2005 warned about Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani-based organization that "had the capacity to attack" America.

The U.S. State Department's 1998 "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report notes the organization "seeks to purify Islam through violence."

The report continued, "Members have purchased isolated rural compounds in North America to live communally, practice their faith and insulate themselves from Western culture. Fuqra members have attacked a variety of targets that they view as enemies of Islam."

CAN, led by Martin Mawyer, has researched Muslims of America for years and has provided its video to the FBI, State Department and Homeland Security.

To date, there has been no response from the government, the group said.

Mawyer told WND the political correctness America has adopted ultimately will be costly. Marching in formation on jihad training video.

The hands of law enforcement and investigators are tied at this point, he said, because members of the organization are part of "a minority religion," "they are African-American" "and in this particular case, are women."

"Gilani has stated he is preparing his members to the Soldiers of Allah, and he's set up the most advanced guerrilla warfare training camps," he said. "He's being true to his word.

"If the evidence is right in front of our face and we have the words from the leader," Mawyer said. "I don't know how we continue to close our eyes and be blinded by such obvious affront to American values, the Constitution and our way of life."

Loudmouth 5FM DJ Gareth Cliff has been gagged from making any comments about Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's death on air after his Twitter remarks sparked widespread outrage.

The shock jock received a stern warning from the public broadcaster yesterday not to try anything on air.

SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago told the Saturday Star he had had a meeting with Cliff and told him they did not support his comments.

"He (Cliff) said he had not said anything on air and was not planning to do so. He gave us a clear commitment he would not," said Kganyago.
'A selfish and wicked bungler of the lowest order'

The furore began on Wednesday when Cliff responded on social networking site Twitter to Tshabalala-Msimang's death from complications relating to her 2007 liver transplant.

His first tweet: "Manto is dead. Good. A selfish and wicked bungler of the lowest order. Rotten and rancid liver - three of them..."

Many Twitter followers, bloggers and Facebookers called for him to be fired. The ANC Youth League and several politicians also added their voices.

But that didn't stop Cliff.

He posted: "Relieved about Manto. I was worried she'd finish all our phuza before 2010," as well as "getting a lot of heat about my Manto comment earlier: It's what I said while she was alive, and I'm not going to lie just because she's dead."

Later posts included: "Why do people think the dead deserve respect? They're dead... Even the law is unequivocal: dead people have no rights," as well as "That woman - Manto - and her policies on Aids sent many thousands of people to their graves early. She added no value to SA."

Yesterday Kganyago said Cliff was a freelancer and did not work only for the SABC.

"He has his own show on MNet. Why should the SABC be the only one to answer?" he asked. "It was not done on air. People should be outraged at Twitter. He did it in his personal capacity in a public forum, away from the SABC."

He admitted that the SABC had "become worried" and decided to speak to Cliff.

"He gave us his word. It is his view and we can't take it away from him. He has used a public platform. From our side we can't say he can't express his views on a public platform."

Cliff's manager, Rina Bloomberg, said Cliff was at several functions yesterday and his popularity on Twitter had shot up "by a couple of thousand".

She referred to his latest statement on his website, where he says: "My opinion of her in life was not a particularly favourable one and I am sure she might have thought the same of me - but this is of no import. Now that she is dead, it would appear I am required to put up the pretence that I am sad. I'm afraid I can't be quite so pious."

While he sympathised with her family, Cliff qualified his tweets, saying: "Minister Tshabalala-Msimang presided over the most disastrous policy decisions in South African medical history."

He quoted from the Los Angeles Times that she had been directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of about 300 000 people.

"These are the facts. The opinions, caricatured all over the world, were much harsher: 'Dr Beetroot' was hardly a figure of universal love and devotion," he said.

Cliff joked about ANC Youth League president Julius Malema running to the media over his comments, instead of just calling him, as he had his phone number.

"I couldn't help wondering why so much valuable time and space is given to a simple tweet. Some of us will agree... and others will agree to disagree. Great minds don't always think alike. But what we have to agree on is the power of Twitter. Who would have thought a little twit could evoke such a reaction?"

But this is not the first time Cliff has shot off his mouth. In 2004 he was wrapped over the knuckles by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission for making derogatory statements about mentally ill people.

The same year he was suspended for two days when he held a mock interview with Jesus Christ when the Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ was being screened.

Tshabalala-Msimang's funeral will be held in Pretoria on Tuesday.

She will be given an official funeral at the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. Her body will be cremated at a private ceremony at the Pretoria West crematorium.

A memorial service will take place at 3.30pm on Monday at the Pretoria City Hall, where the congregation will be addressed by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

There will be a private vigil at the family home in Waterkloof Ridge on Monday from 7pm, and her cortege will be dressed in the ANC flag.

The family will be escorted to the funeral by soldiers. President Jacob Zuma has asked that flags be flown at half mast.

HIGH unemployment is a perpetual problem that South Africa has been unable to solve.
This year it has become a crisis that threatens to create social instability and has set South Africa back years in its ambition to eradicate poverty.

Efforts so far to deal with job losses caused by the recession - such as the training lay-off scheme, assistance to distressed companies and proposals by business and labour for a jobs pact - are limited in scope.

President Jacob Zuma said earlier this month that, despite the recession ending, further job losses were expected before these efforts took effect.

The plan to create 500 000 work opportunities was certainly an ambitious target in this climate. But 304 000 people have already benefited from temporary work and the opportunity to develop basic skills.

Public Works Minister Geoff Doidge said recently he was confident that the work opportunity target could be reached by the end of the year.

Although temporary, this programme, combined with other social support, has gone some way to alleviating the effects of the recession. But seemingly more effective have been measures that the government put in place years ago, and which this year became a vital safety net for the millions who are unemployed.

Unemployment insurance, which was extended to domestic workers in 2003, is an example. The rehabilitation of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) since 2005 from a shambolic state has enabled it to support some of those who have recently lost their jobs.
The UIF has earmarked R5.6 billion for benefits this fiscal year, of which 80 percent would be for unemployment. In the year to March 2009 the UIF paid out R3.8bn, of which R2.8bn was paid to 474 793 retrenched workers, a 40 percent increase on the year before.

Social grants, such as child support, have proved essential in keeping food on the table and children in school.

But continually increasing the scope of social grants to counteract economic hardship is not sustainable. South Africa needs a longer-term solution to drive job creation.

Colen Garrow, an economist at Brait, said the government got it wrong on social grants because when a child turned 18 he or she would have no grant and most likely no job. Garrow said the funds that would be used for the extension of child support grants should rather be "given" to companies as a tax incentive to create jobs.

Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven said South Africa could not rely on a global upturn to create jobs as "we are already witnessing jobless growth".

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said recently that a new industrial policy would be released next year. Research by his department showed that the manufacture of medium-technology products, such as car parts, had the most potential to create decent sustainable work.

But the damage to manufacturers has been deep and it will take a while for this sector to get back on an even keel from where it can lead the economy.

NELSON Mandela Bay traffic officers who failed to turn up for work over the Christmas weekend were back at work yesterday and will be on duty for the rest of the festive season, said municipal spokesman Luncedo Njezula.

The officers – who staged an illegal stayaway because they claimed they were not kept in the loop about their incorporation into the newly formed metro police – were apparently briefed at the weekend and yesterday.

The launch of the metro police is set for March 21.

Njezula said: “The safety and security directorate has been engaging with labour on the formation of the metro police force. Various presentations, meetings and workshops were held. It was agreed, however, that more intensive consultation sessions would be held in future.

“There are 184 (officers) who already qualify to become metro police officers, 132 have already done the traffic officers course and only need to do the two-week conversion course.

“To help fast-track the conversion process, our training college will hold conversion courses every month beginning in January, until all 132 officers have been trained. Seventeen need to do the complete training and nine (of them) will be attending the training college in January.”

The SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) said earlier that its members would not report for duty on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day if the issue was not resolved yesterday.

Njezula gave the assurance that the traffic officers would be on duty on those days.

Samwu spokesman Simphiwe Ndunyana said he was not sure of the outcome of the meeting, but it was possible that an agreement had been reached.

In principle, the municipality has agreed with the union to withdraw the notice of establishing the metro police until all outstanding issues have been finalised.

The union and officers will meet today to finalise their programme of action.

The officers complained they were supposed to be regraded before being taken on in the metro police. They were also owed 10 years’ back pay.

Njezula said: “With regard to the regrading and back pay, traffic officers were to be evaluated in 2000. However, due to administrative issues, this was never done.

“Agreements have been reached in principle on the issue of regrading.”

Pretoria - A 34-year-old Thai woman arrested for human trafficking was denied bail in the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

Giang Brooderyk was denied bail as the court said she was a flight risk and would evade trial once she was out on bail.

She was arrested on November 26 for allegedly assisting girls from Bangkok, Thailand to enter the country illegally.

She allegedly promised them work at her Thai massage parlour. Once they were in the country they were forced to work as prostitutes at her brothel in town.

Has South African ID

The court said she entered the country with a fraudulent visitor's permit in 2000, and ever since she had been able to travel between Thailand and South Africa with fraudulent papers, due to connections she had in the Department of Home Affairs, the police and the aviation industry.

During the period she stayed in South Africa, she married a South African man and acquired a South African identity document.

According to the court papers, she had property and bank accounts in Bangkok. Her child and relatives also lived there.

The court said although she had business and bank accounts in South Africa, these did not count for much as her Absa account had no money and her only relative in South Africa was her sister who lived in Johannesburg.

THE government is considering using retired sports stars and putting in gym clubs at police stations to help unfit officers reduce their weight, police chief Bheki Cele said yesterday.

“We are speaking to the sports stars who want to work with us. Gyms such as Virgin Active have also indicated that they want to work with us,” he said.

The plan was devised after it “emerged” that some overweight officers found it difficult to chase suspects, he said. The government would also ensure every new police station had a gym.

Cele made the announcement during a walkabout at Durban’s New Beach and Albert Park, home to hundreds of illegal immigrants, where five were arrested for having no residence permits. Fifty-three others were arrested on Tuesday night for entering the country illegally.

Speaking after visiting the park, Cele said the area had became a “nest” for criminals.

The majority of foreigners in Albert Park are from Tanzania. Some fled when Cele and police arrived.

The commissioner later applauded the police for arresting several people for murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and armed robberies.

“It is through sheer dedication and willingness by our police officers to eradicate criminality in our country that these suspects were arrested in such quick succession in all of these cases. They must be applauded for this,” he said.

A 21-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the murder of six people in Ntuzuma outside Durban.

“We have arrested one person and we will soon arrest more.”

The six were killed and three others injured on Christmas night when three men armed with R5 and AK-47 rifles entered a house and opened fire.

Cele said the arrested man had been linked to a murder in Kranskop, and was wanted for a hijacking in Eshowe.

In the North West, five people were arrested for killing businesswoman Miriam Khoza, her two teenage sons and another two relatives in Lethabong outside Rustenburg. Their bodies were found on Christmas Day.

Two people were arrested for the murder of three-year- old Nono Galada in the Free State. She was reported missing on Christmas and her body was found the next day.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has more than 300 applications for pardons awaiting his attention, his office said yesterday.

There has been speculation in the media about the possibility of pardons being granted to Zuma’s former financial adviser Schabir Shaik, convicted of fraud; former Vlakplaas security police death squad leader Eugene de Kock, and Clive Derby-Lewis, convicted of conspiring to kill SA Communist Party secretary-general Chris Hani.

Zuma is empowered by the Constitution to pardon or reprieve offenders. “The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development routinely receives the applications for processing and forwards these to the Presidency for consideration by the head of state.”

The applications currently before Zuma were from people “from all walks of life who have violated the laws of the land”. The Presidency said the applicants would be notified of the outcome “through normal procedures” once their applications had been finalised.

In an urgent letter to Zuma yesterday, civil rights group AfriForum warned that granting Shaik a pardon would undermine the impression that a supreme and independent justice system was upholding and promoting democracy. It would create the belief instead that people with powerful friends and connections were above the law in South Africa, said AfriForum deputy chief executive Alana Bailey.

The DA said on Tuesday that neither Shaik nor De Kock had paid their debt to society and that their release would run counter to the public interest.

“Any decision to pardon these two criminals would constitute a devastating blow to the rule of law in South Africa,” spokesman James Selfe said.

The Presidency dismissed claims that Zuma might be considering a pardon for De Kock as well, following an alleged meeting with him last April.

WHILE the Correctional Services Department continues with its national security plan in terms of countrywide cell raids, no officials have been implicated yet in the smuggling of drugs and weapons to inmates of Port Elizabeth prisons.

The department has started investigating prison warders after an assortment of dangerous weapons was confiscated from cells in various Eastern Cape prisons during an intensified search of cells by senior officials.

Department spokesman Zamuxolo Feni said the cell raids had been carried out in Port Elizabeth, East London, King William’s Town, Grahamstown, Patensie, Stutterheim, Lady Frere, Dordrecht and Ngcobo prisons last week.

Feni said the cell raids formed part of Operation Vala, a prison security plan which started on Wednesday last week and would continue until January 18.

Among the preventative measures taken were the reduction of outdoor activities for inmates and searches for items that could be used in escapes or in fights among prisoners.

“Officials found to be in contravention of department policies face disciplinary hearing and dismissal, but no member of the department has been suspended so far.”

A total of 46 dangerous weapons, including scissors, sharpened spoons, wire, home-made knives, razor blades and screwdrivers, were confiscated in various prisons in the Eastern Cape.

Among other unauthorised items found were 960g of dagga, 51 Mandrax tablets, nine cellphones and R2856 in cash.

Thirty-one Mandrax tablets, eight cellphones, two cellphone chargers, two cellphone batteries, three “twists” of dagga, two dagga pipes, a razor blade and a screwdriver were found in two Port Elizabeth prisons, St Albans and North End, during the cell raids.

“We will investigate how these items got inside the cells and action will be taken against senior officials, prison warders or inmates found to be involved in smuggling the items into cells.”

Feni said the searches had been conducted by the regional prisons commissioner and other officials in both Port Elizabeth prisons.

With the overcrowding rate at the city’s jails more than 100%, more searches would follow throughout the year.

DA safety and security spokesman, Bay councillor Gustav Rautenbach, said: “The operation is good and working for the department, but the raids should be carried out more regularly.”